Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

An interesting example of a trademark license is Wizards of The Coast's 
(Hasbro's) "d20" license. This is a logo indicating compatibility with 
their games that you can use if you comply with the conditions of the 
license, one of which is that a certain percentage of your game must be 
Open Content.

I recommend that anyone interested in Open Trademarks (or a spectrum of 
rights for trademarks) study the d20/OGL licenses, their reception by 
the community, their effect on their intended market and how changes to 
the licenses have affected their usage very closely.

The cc-bizcom archives contain a conversation with the author of the 
OGL which touches on some of these issues.

- Rob.

On 2 Mar 2005, at 18:52, Thomas wrote:

> These could be: the product associated with this trademark should be 
> under a specific license (or allow some rights and impose some dutes), 
> but is jast one case.